The best present they could have, as it is a strong incentive for Reggae and Dancehall Artiste to improve the quality of their music or face problems locally and abroad due to the low quality of Music the airwaves and the intolerance of Authorities in foreign countries to their rabble-rousing ways.

Rather, Friday July 1st 2011AD marks twenty (20) years since the first GSM (Global Systems Mobile) call was placed on Monday July 1st 1991AD as stated in the article “First GSM call was made 20 years ago today”, published Jul. 1, 2011, 9:15am PT by Om Malik, GigaOM.

That first GSM call was placed by Harri Holkeri, the then Prime Minister of Finland, who made that first call over Finnish Telecom Provider Radiolinja's newly built GSM Network built by Telenokia and Siemens on one of the first model GSM phones, the car-based and very bulky Nokia 1011.

I make mention of this, as the next generation of Mobile Networks have Data at its heart. There is a General worldwide push towards 4G, represented by the competing sister protocols LTE (Long Term Evolution) and WiMaX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) being undertaken by older more established Telecom Providers such as Telecom Provider AT&T and Telecom ProviderVerizon as stated in my blog article entitled “Alternative Energy and 4G - Green Lantern Core”.

Favours to bestow in the form of contracts are usually codenamed For Your Eyes Only (1981) by Telecoms Providers and it is swinging clearly in the LTE direction, as Telecom Providers are specifically requesting such gear from Telecom Equiptment Suppliers.

This as being as many Telecom Providers are already members of GSMA and an LTE upgrade, for the most part, is a software upgrade from WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) Networks.

Increasingly, however, these older Telecom Providers of the same age as Telecom Provider AT&T and Telecom ProviderVerizon are realizing that people are making less Voice Calls and using more Data Services.

A phenomenon peculiar to the Developed World as the ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) for Voice is on the decline and Data is steadily rising, projected to break even in 2013AD as stated in the article “It’s Official: Voice Is Worthless”, published February 9, 2011, 2:28pm PT by Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, which the below graph so vividly illustrates:

Even the slated completion date eighteen (18) months into the future, which coincides with the start of the Winter Tourist Season in 2012AD is more than just coincidence. Telecom ProviderLIME and Telecom ProviderDigicel have plans to upgrade to LTE later, by which time Locals should be excited and enthused about using Wireless Data services.

This as HSDPA+ Release 7 is part of the LTEroadmap and would allow current users of 3G to continue using their mobile devices without having to change them, as would be the case with LTE, which uses a WCDMA but with differ rent hardware. Not surprising, considering that 3G may be popular and still in use even up to 2015AD, according to the statistics of Wireless Intelligence, best expressed in the below graph:

Telecom ProviderVerizon is effectively encouraging people to buy into the idea of mobile phones that use Data Services to have a Voice conversation, assuming people still talk in the future. Thus, they can still keep making money from Metered Voice Inter- and Intra-LATA (Local Access Transport Area) Calling and Data usage such as streaming Data at the same time!

But a more fascinating proposition is for the marriage of Municipal Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Networks and Traditional Telecom Providers who have a Data Network, specifically in the form of seamless Revenue sharing Cross-Platform roaming. This would solve future congestion problems and make Data and Voice truly seamless.

That is to say, people who have Laptops, Netbooks and smartphones capable of using the Municipal Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Network and seamless transitioning to the 3G or LTE Network in much the same way a GSM Voice call hands over from Cell Tower to Cell Tower while the person is in motion, with no input from the user.

Heterogeneous Networks such a Japan’s KDDI are attempting to do just that for the first time. Data demands by their customers means that they will have the capability to seamlessly hand over between a Municipal Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Network and a WiMaX 4G Mobile (IEEE 802.16d,e) Network by March 2012AD as stated in the article “Wi-Fi: It’s the other cell Network”, published July 1, 2011, 8:30am PT By Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM.

This was a concept I had suggested for utilization between Telecom ProviderDigiceland Municipal Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Networks such as Dekal Wireless and Nubian-1 Tech Services Ltd, as albeit they are competing, it would be of mutual benefit to both Telecom Providers to continue making Data Revenue when customers roam from one Network to another.

Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) will be common in many devices in the future. Such handover capabilities should be standard on Telecom Provider Networks as a means of offloading excessive Data Traffic as well as artificially expanding their Network size and make revenue from devices that have both a Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) and 3G, LTE or WiMaX 4G Mobile (IEEE 802.16d, e) chipset.

Ruckus Wireless has gone ahead into the future in deploying this Heterogeneous Network, first of its kind for KDDI in a Japanese Flight of the Navigator (1986).